#typescript #12_factor #12_factor_agents #agents #ai #context_window #framework #llms #memory #orchestration #prompt_engineering #rag

The 12-Factor Agents are a set of proven principles to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable AI applications powered by large language models (LLMs). They help you combine the creativity of AI with the stability of traditional software by managing prompts, context, tool calls, error handling, and human collaboration effectively. Instead of relying solely on complex frameworks, you can apply these modular concepts to improve your existing products quickly and reach high-quality AI performance for real users. This approach makes AI software easier to develop, debug, and scale, ensuring it works well in production environments[1][3][5].

https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents

#python #agent #ai #anthropic #claude_code #compression #context_engineering #context_window #cursor #fastapi #langchain #llm #mcp #openai #prompt_engineering #proxy #python #rag #token_optimization #tokens #typescript

Headroom is a local tool for AI agents that shrinks prompts, logs, files, and chat history before sending them to an LLM, often cutting tokens by 60–95% while keeping the same answer quality. It can work as a library, proxy, MCP server, or agent wrapper, so you can save tokens, speed up workflows, and still recover the original content when needed.

https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom